Finding Favor

World Budget

Mark 16:15 “Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.”

The Seventh-day Adventist Church is known throughout the world for its mission outreach. Your regular and systematic mission offerings are like a life-giving river with tributaries flowing around the world, carrying refreshing water to mission fields. Every time we give our mission offerings, we’re adding water to a life-giving river that flows through often parched lands bringing life and hope. We’re helping the church grow, not only locally but also in areas that we may not have even heard of. We’re assisting missionaries we may never meet and building schools and clinics that we probably will never visit. We are helping plant churches we may never worship in. And we’re bringing life to the church’s mission by introducing Jesus’ love to the hearts and minds of people all around the world.

Did you know that even before COVID-19, the Adventist Church was experiencing a noticeable decline in mission offerings? Part of the reason is that we sometimes want to give to a specific project or put our offerings towards something special that stirs our hearts. We see the results, and we feel satisfied. Giving to the mission offering may not be as glamorous as giving to a specific, well-advertised project or program. But mission offerings help sustain all mission projects.

Just as we do not know where every drop of water in a river goes, we can see the results, and it is beautiful. Psalm 104 says, “He sends the springs into the valleys, they flow among the hills, they give drink to every beast of the field, the wild donkeys quench their thirst. By them, the birds of the heavens have their home, they sing among the branches.”

In Matthew 28, Jesus Himself said, “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.” Please prayerfully ask the Holy Spirit to show you what more you can do to support
and sustain our Lord’s work until He comes.

—North American Division Stewardship Ministries

PMC members who are invited to join the Fellowship Dinner on July 2 are last names Abriot-Byrd. Invitations have been sent to those with email addresses, and members are asked to respond by June 29 via email with the number attending. If you don't have an email address, you may call the church office at 269-471-6565 to reserve spots.

July 2, 2022, 1:15 PM (after 2nd Service)
Location: Pioneer Commons

 From Anger to Intimacy with Gary Smalley DVD series

• July 9 – Roadblocks to Forgiveness
• July 16 – Forgiving the Difficult, Addicted or Cheating Spouse

Everyone is welcome Sabbath mornings from 10:30-11:30 AM in Pioneer Room 141.